"Yes, there was something close to a massacre in those streets, with some of the units originally sent to clear the square of students turning their guns wildly on the crowds that had tried to block their approach. And to find out why the soldiers did such an atrocious thing we do not have to look much beyond those widely publicized photos of military buses in rows being set on fire by those protesting crowds."

I've seen quite a few posts recently about how ActivityPub clients or instance are blacklisting certain domains/pubs.

I can't help but feel like this violates some core principle of the "fediverse", especially when the goal generally seems to be to reduce barriers for user choice/adoption and not to create unexpected complexities and censors?

@Gargron Almost kid. Started strong but then went full on SJW weirdo. Let me fix it:

Remember that Gab is a sinking ship and they're basically grabbing onto Mastodon like a parasite in a desperate attempt to get attention from the "drama" as a fund raising scam.

We build free and open source software to make the world a more fair place for everyone and push back against the technocrats. Torba is a con artist and scammer who has some how blown $3MM without anything to show for it. #grifter

@gabrieleI'm not sure that's a downside for them. I just hope some decent content comes along with them to the fedi. Yeah, some asshole racists will be in that crowd (whom I'll block), but so will people that aren't assholes - sorta like FSE or any other "free speech" instance. Personally, I look forward to trolling the racist assholes in the crowd! 😂

- Make sure that RAM, wifi card, battery and HDD/SSD are all replaceable, not soldered to the board.

- Try to get a common model so that spares will be available for a while

- Also you might pre-emptively buy spares for the things which usually fail. Especially battery.

- Preferably run Free Software and do as much computing as possible locally on it. Avoid SaaS whose system requirements will increase over time.

I refurbished a netbook the other day, so it is possible to still run decade old technology and for it still to be useful. The netbook runs faster and takes less RAM today than originally when it was new, due to the software advances in Linux and window managers.

@felix sadly many Italians went to Venezuela in the years, joining the rich class and now they are saying to friends and relatives in Italy that Maduro is a dictator. We also have a meme about "Venezuelan cousins" to make fun of those Italians that mention their relatives in Venezuela as a reliable source.

This video is a few months old, but still it shows what the situation in #Venezuela is like. Poor people like Maduro because he actually helps them, while rich people ask for foreign intervention and imperialism so they oppress the poor like they used to.